This book addresses the task of opening hospital services, and is intended as a practical guidebook for commissioning services and buildings. The context of commissioning is also considered: the effect of a new building on district services as a whole and the associated problems of closures and of the change ...
The closure or change of use of all or part of a hospital or health facility used to be relatively rare and straight forward. Relatively little has been written about ways in which health service changes have been carried through effectively and to the satisfaction of the different parties concerned. ...
The first King's Fund report, 'Commissioning new hospital buildings', was published in 1966, and demand for it was such that it is now out of print. On the initiative of the King's Fund and with the encouragement of the Department of Health and Social Security, a working party was formed ...